Originally presented on January 20, 2010
10:30 a.m. to Noon (Pacific)

Order Option       Price   CD Recording Only       $219

The ability to communicate electronically through email and emerging Web-2.0 technologies, such as blogs and other social networking tools, means increased collaboration and productivity in the workplace - but what happens to crucial electronic data you might need to pull up in the event of a lawsuit?

Will you be able to locate the data you need to defend your organization, or will you find yourself sifting through network file shares, intranets, and employees' individual hard drives only to find that data has been lost or destroyed? Don't wait for a lawsuit to find out.

Join us on Jan. 20 for an in-depth 90-minute interactive webinar, specifically for California employers, all about how to update your existing electronic recordkeeping policy so you properly maintain data created or stored electronically. Our expert - a seasoned California labor and employment attorney - will provide expert insight into the steps you should take now to ensure that you're preserving electronic employment records in a centralized location so you can properly call them up as needed. You'll learn:

• The records you may want to scan and store electronically, and the ones you must still must maintain in paper form
• How long you need to maintain key employment-related records
• The essential controls you should have in place to ensure the integrity, accuracy, authenticity, and reliability of electronically stored records
• Where to store your electronic records, and how to determine who should have access to them
• the steps you should take as soon as you learn about potential litigation related to electronically stored records
• Effective methods for destroying electronic data

About Your Speaker:

Mary E. Wright, Esq. is a shareholder with the San Francisco office of Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, PC. She advises corporations of all sizes in all areas of the employer-employee relationship, including hiring, discipline and assessment, training, investigations, disability accommodation competition and confidentiality, classification issues, and terminations, including furloughs, reductions in force, WARN, and other issues impacting employers in this volatile economic climate.

Wright is a frequent speaker to human resource organizations, and is a published author and blogger. She was the Chair of her former firm's Employment Law Practice Group for seven years, was a member of the Board of Directors for the Bar Association of San Francisco, and now sits on the Association's Judiciary Committee. She was named a Northern California Lawyer Super Lawyer in 2005, 2007, 2008, and 2009.

This program has been approved for 1.5 recertification credit hours toward PHR and SPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI). For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HRCI homepage at www.hrci.org. The use of this seal is not an endorsement by HRCI of the quality of the program. It means that this program has met HRCI's criteria to be pre-approved for recertification credit.

Bonus Offer

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